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Lt. John Macready
Yuri Vasilievich Kondratyuk
Eugen Sänger
Wernher von Braun
Noel F. Parrish
Lt. Oakley Kelly
Chauncey Spencer
Robert Hutchings Goddard
Flight Crew of the NC-4
The Tuskegee Airmen
Charles Lindbergh
C. Alfred Anderson and Albert Forsythe
Lt. Leslie P. Arnold
Janet Bragg
Ruth Nichols
Lt. James H. "Jimmy" Doolittle
Pioneers of Naval Aviation
Nikolai Alekseevich Rynin
Robert Albert Charles Esnault-Pelterie
Max Valier
Hermann "Noordung" Potočnik
Lt. Lowell Smith
Friedrich Tsander
Sergei Pavlovich Korolëv
Willa Brown
Philip Ellaby Cleator
Capt. Hawthorne C. Gray
Albert W. Stevens
Bessie Coleman
William T. Piper
Flying Leathernecks U.S. Marine Corps Aviation
Walter Hohmann
Cornelius Coffey
Hermann Julius Oberth
Calbraith Perry Rodgers
William J. Powell Jr.
Gawain Edward "Ed" Pendray
Frank Joseph Malina
Benjamin O. Davis Jr.
James Herman Banning
Yakov Isidorovich Perel’man
Hermann Ganswindt
James Hart Wyld
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky
Auguste Piccard
C. G. Taylor
Louise Thaden
Amelia Earhart
Willy Ley
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